Looking for the Ideal Spot to Make a Speech — WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama's aides say he is considering making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100 days in office. — So where should he do it? The list of Islamic world capitals is long …

Obama's Muslim Speech — Barack Obama is toying with the idea of making a speech from an Islamic capital within his first 100 days in office. The scuttlebutt is all about finding the right one. (The consensus is Cairo-which is a terrible idea. An Obama speech there would be read …

Dubya's New Digs — First couple drops $2.07 million on 1.13 acre Dallas spread — This is the Texas home that George W. Bush has purchased for his fast-approaching post-White House years. The home, on a Dallas cul-de-sac, sits on 1.13 acres and offers 8501 square feet of living space, according to city appraisal records.

Bushes confirm purchase of Dallas home in Preston Hollow — tgillman@dallasnews.com; rbush@dallasnews.com — The White House confirmed Thursday that the Bushes have purchased a house in Dallas' Preston Hollow neighborhood for the couple to live in after his presidency ends in January.

WARREN ENDORSES HANNITY'S WARMONGERING.... Pastor Rick Warren has a reputation for being far more stable and grounded than religious right leaders and TV preachers like Pat Robertson, but it's worth remembering that he's not exactly a moderate. — Last night, on Fox News …

WHAT IS LIFE WORTH? — What is six months of your life worth? And don't say priceless. It's not priceless. Not if you're not paying. So let's sharpen the question: What should six months of your life be worth to your insurer, be that insurer the government or Aetna?

DC Statehood — Many DC license plates are emblazoned with the slogan “taxation without representation” and it seems the DC Council wants president Obama to put those plates on his car. — I'd like to see that, too. What I'd like even better is for congress to use its power to admit …

GG agrees to suspend Parliament until January — Decision gives Tories reprieve, prevents opposition from toppling government on Monday — Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean has granted a request from Stephen Harper to suspend Parliament until late next month, the prime minister announced on Thursday …

Gulf Oil CEO says gas could hit $1 next year — Gulf Oil CEO Joe Petrowski said on Wednesday that the price of oil could sink to $20 per barrel, and there is a chance gasoline prices could drop as low as $1 per gallon by early next year. — Speaking at a South Shore Chamber of Commerce breakfast …

Tangled Web: Rangel son got campaign cash — Between 2004 and 2007, Rep. Charles Rangel steered nearly $80,000 in campaign cash to an Internet company run by his son - paying lavishly for a pair of political Web sites so poorly designed an expert estimated one should have cost no more than $100 to create.

What will make Obama a great president — He must make the U.S. a world leader in global warming solutions. Then he must inspire China to follow suit. — The Chinese flag flutters outside a coking plant in Changzhi, Shanxi province, May 29. — Has any U.S. president come into office …

Chris Matthews' Insult to Pennsylvania Voters — Having grown up outside of Philadelphia, I just want to say I really hope Chris Matthews runs for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, and is humiliatingly obliterated in a Democratic primary (preferably by a good progressive like, for instance, former Rep. Joe Hoeffel).

CAN'T SPEND FAST ENOUGH — Let me follow up on what I just wrote below about Krugman's and Atrios's views on our difficulty in finding ways to spend on stimulus quickly enough to pull the economy out of its nosedive. We're not just looking for ways to spend — capital projects …

Hillary and the Constitution — Members of the Senate are not above the law. — What's a little matter like the Constitution among friends? That's a question a few legal eagles are asking as they note that Hillary Clinton can't become Secretary of State thanks to something called the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.